How to solve null object reference after instantiate FacebookSessionUtil

Question

I think you can help me out from this little problem.

I am a novice in Facebook developer by choosing ActionScript 3 as my developer platform. I use SWC library from official facebook-actionscript-api that promoted by Adobe.

So I followed their tutorial. So I did following instruction:

1. Create Flex project.
2. Download and put Facebook_library_v3.4_flex.swc to \lib in Flex project.

3. Provide following code:

           import com.facebook.Facebook;
           import com.facebook.utils.FacebookSessionUtil;
   
           private var fbook:Facebook;
           private var session: FacebookSessionUtil;
   
           protected var api_key : String = "my-facebook-app-api-key";
           protected var secret_key : String = "my-facebook-app-secret-key";
   
           public function init() : void {
               //fbook = new Facebook();
               session=new FacebookSessionUtil(api_key,secret_key,this.loaderInfo);
               var fbook : Facebook = session.facebook;
               session.validateLogin();
           }
   

   After trying to run debug session. I got the error after execute this statement:

   session=new FacebookSessionUtil(api_key,secret_key,this.loaderInfo);

I think I did something wrong but I couldn't figure it out. Could you help me by giving your advice or any guideline?

This is exception I got:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at com.facebook.utils::FacebookSessionUtil()[C:\Users\MikeHunt\Work\FacebookAPI\src\com\facebook\utils\FacebookSessionUtil.as:128]
at CheeseZaa/init()[/Users/teerasej/Documents/Flex Builder 3?/freelance/CheeseZaa/src/CheeseZaa.mxml:24]
at CheeseZaa/___CheeseZaa_Application1_creationComplete()[/Users/teerasej/Documents/Flex Builder 3?/freelance/CheeseZaa/src/CheeseZaa.mxml:4]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:9440]
at mx.core::UIComponent/set initialized()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:1168]
at mx.managers::LayoutManager/doPhasedInstantiation()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\LayoutManager.as:718]
at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher2()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8744]
at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8684]

I notice that the first line of exception show this:

com.facebook.utils::FacebookSessionUtil()[C:\Users\MikeHunt\Work\FacebookAPI\src\com\facebook\utils\FacebookSessionUtil.as:128]

But I don't sure it involve in exception.

My development platform is:

• Macbook Pro
• OSX Snow Leopard 10.6
• Flash Player 10.0.32 Debugger
• Mozilla Firefox 3.6
• Flex builder 3.2
• Flex SDK 3.5
• Facebook_library_v3.4_flex.swc

Every suggestion and guideline would be thank you. I think this would be good for other developer that may found the same problem like me.

Answer 1

loaderInfo is not ready and is currently null.

try:-

public function init():void
{
    addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, onAddedToStage, false, 0, true);
}

private function onAddedToStage(event:Event):void
{
    removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, onAddedToStage);

    session = new FacebookSessionUtil(api_key, secret_key, this.loaderInfo);
    var fbook:Facebook = session.facebook;

    session.validateLogin();
}